Friday, December 09, 2016, 11:17 p.m.

Great Equivocator?

By LOUIS P. MASUR SLATE

In Hollywood, at least, Abraham Lincoln’s reputation as the Great Emancipator is safe and sound. Earlier this year, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter presented a man who “fought a war for the soul of the country” against the “demon of slavery.” Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a tireless warrior pushing for passage of the 13th Amendment, which would forever abolish slavery in the United States. In a high-pitched drawl that captures the ...